19 May 2010

Performance artist Kalup
Linzy and "surprise guest" were the headliners celebrating Campari's 150th anniversary Sunday night in New York City. The "surprise" was actor James Franco who made quite the scene, reports NYMag.

"[D]rag-ish performance artist and
Guggenheim fellow Kalup Linzy, came out onto the makeshift stage in
what appeared to be a studded gold lamé wetsuit — bare-armed, barefoot,
with a flower in his hair, singing gorgeously before a six-piece band. A
couple of songs in, after the Voguers did their mirroring strut, Franco
got up in a tuxedo, his hair slicked back, looking a little like
Christian Bale in American Psycho: assessing, aloof, addled.
Plopped onto a red velour wing chair in the middle of the small stage,
clutching a microphone, his role in the performance was to stare with
arrogant fascination at Linzy's ample ass, as the singer performed torch
songs about bad men. Franco looked sleek, game, and sincerely confused,
and sang badly on their duet, which was Nicolette Larson's "Lotta
Love." Much of the crowd didn't seem to know who he was."

16 April 2010

A scan from the May "Beautiful People
2010" edition of Paper, which is covered by Beth Ditto and dropped this week. Brooklyn-based video and performance artist, scenester and HIV activist Kalup Linzy is named to the list.

Linzy, who often performs in drag, has stormed the art world with satirical and raunchy soap-opera videos. Says the magazine: "In 2005, The New York Times opened its
review of the group show 'African Queen'
at the Studio Museum in Harlem with four
heart-stopping words: 'A star is born,' referring
to Linzy and his now infamous piece 'All
My Churen.'"

In case you missed it the first time, Kalup Linzy was last seen on R20 in the ENDHIV.com PSA with actor Wilson Cruz, watch it AFTER THE JUMP ...